Billboard Top Soft Rock Hits: 1970 (1997)

About this title: Billboard: Top Soft Rock Hits illustrates that the pop mainstream wasn't necessarily affected by the musical upheavals in rock & roll during the late '60s and early '70s, but did freely adopt its production techniques. Although Engelbert Humperdinck ("My Marie"), Andy Williams and Perry Como all are devoted to the pre-rock & roll era, the light acoustic guitars, rolling beats and layered production of other tracks are clearly in debt to folk-rock and pop-rock, and similarly, Bread, Glen Campbell and Dionne Warwick -- all of whom have stronger rock roots -- capture the light, melodic side of ... read more

Tracks:

1. It's Only Make Believe [Twitty/Nance]
2. My Marie [Macaulay/Mason]
3. It Don't Matter to Me [Gates]
4. I'll Never Fall in Love Again [Bacharach/David]
5. Without Love (There Is Nothing) [Small]
6. I Just Can't Help Believin' [Mann/Weil]
7. One Day of Your Life [Greenfield/Sedaka]
8. For the Love of Him [Jerome/Martin]
9. It's Impossible [Manzanero/Manzanero]
10. Airport Love Theme (Gwen and Vern) [Newman]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.